Re: emacs-28 6d3608be88: Seccomp: improve support for newer versions of glibc (Bug#51073)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 15:38:24 +0100
> Cc: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>, phst@google.com, p.stephani2@gmail.com,
>  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> It apparently leads to crashes when Emacs is run under seccomp with a
> >> recent glibc version.
> >
> > That can happen any day, if glibc folks make some change we didn't
> > know about.  We cannot chase glibc development forever, we will never
> > succeed catching up with them, certainly not in the long run.
> 
> But this is a known glibc issue, and crashes aren't fun, so I think the
> seccomp change was warranted on the release branch.

It is very worrisome that a change in glibc can break Emacs like that.
I wonder what it means for the maintainability of Emacs in the long
run.  I have a bad feeling about this.